Meditation On A Cold, Dark, And Rainy Night Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGHIIJJKK LLMM| Sweet on the house top falls the gentle shower | A |
| When jet black darkness crowns the silent hour | A |
| When shrill the owlet pours her hollow tone | B |
| Like some lost child sequester'd and alone | B |
| When Will's bewildering wisp begins to flare | C |
| And Philomela breathes her dulcet air | C |
| 'Tis sweet to listen to her nightly tune | D |
| Deprived of star light or the smiling moon | D |
| When deadly winds sweep round the rural shed | E |
| And tell of strangers lost without a bed | E |
| Fond sympathy invokes her dol'rous lay | F |
| And pleasure steals in sorrow's gloom away | F |
| Till fost'ring Somnus bids my eyes to close | G |
| And smiling visions open to repose | H |
| Still on my soothing couch I lie at ease | I |
| Still round my chamber flows the whistling breeze | I |
| Still in the chain of sleep I lie confined | J |
| To all the threat'ning ills of life resign'd | J |
| Regardless of the wand'ring elf of night | K |
| While phantoms break on my immortal sight | K |
| The trump of morning bids my slumbers end | L |
| While from a flood of rest I straight ascend | L |
| When on a busy world I cast my eyes | M |
| And think of nightly slumbers with surprise | M |
George Moses Horton
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